Posts tagged #nature — Page 4

A perfectly flat expanse of salt stretching to the horizon in every direction — one of the most surreal landscapes in North America, where the ground looks like snow and the sky reflects in the surface like water.

On the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, Sand Harbor is a boulder-strewn beach with water so clear you can see the bottom at 20 feet — the kind of lake view that makes you question every other lake you've ever seen.

A 53-foot waterfall tucked inside a park in the middle of Minneapolis — an unexpected natural landmark in an urban setting, with a creek gorge trail that makes you forget you're in a city.

A Shawnee National Forest spillway in southern Illinois where river otters, beavers, and pileated woodpeckers appear with surprising regularity.

A series of cascading rock shelves on the Little Missouri River deep in Arkansas Ouachita National Forest — quiet, beautiful, and the start of the Eagle Rock Loop.

A 77-foot waterfall in the Oklahoma Ozarks, filming location for Where the Red Fern Grows, with lamp posts from the 1920s still lining the trail.

Missouri's widest continuously running waterfall outside Joplin — 163 feet across solid chert, a local favorite for fishing and swimming for generations.

Triple Falls in DuPont State Forest — three tiers of Little River waterfalls, a Hunger Games filming location, and some of the best hiking in western North Carolina.

The highest waterfall east of the Rockies at up to 411 feet, plunging through Nantahala National Forest on the NC-SC border.